Friday 10 October 2008

Checklist:20 Simple tips for new Bloggers

Before going into deep on blogging and before to forget all my experiences I want to share all my learning’s and experiences with new Bloggers into field. I already wrote an article on Things to know before starting a blog. So after you started your blog, you need to know & follow some basic tips and tricks. Here I will walk you through all those today.

  1. The first thing is decide what all the categories (Blogging, Tech and etc…) are you wanted to cover through your blog.
  2. Choose the correct domain to address your niche
  3. Make good design for your blog (Recommend to take 2 column theme to utilize the space correctly)
  4. Add proper plugin or widgets on sidebars to showcase all your talent.
  5. Place Recent posts, Categories, Most viewed and etc… for getting better page views.
  6. Place subscription form available on home page to get good feed count.
  7. Remind visitors to subscribe by placing subscribe form after each post
  8. Attract visitor by placing Related articles under every post
  9. Close to your visitors by providing a contact form
  10. Comment on fellow Blogs
  11. Participate in link sharing & Banner exchange
  12. Observe other blogs closely to get ideas for innovative articles.
  13. Subscribe to all good blogs under your niche.
  14. Submit blog to your local or country or city communities
  15. Update blog at least 5 days in a week with fresh content addressing current problems, news, tips and etc…
  16. Answer readers questions by responding to comments or contact form requests
  17. Appreciate your commenters to encourage them
  18. Signup to Google Analytics to monitor your visitors landing and from which country visitors are, which language and etc…
  19. Now follow these 9 simple ways to promote your blog for free
  20. Be away from placing ads until your site gets good shape & place on web
Source:TechZoomIn

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